Pilots over Scotland have been warned to keep a sharp eye out for a Rueppell's Griffon Vulture which is currently awol from a Cumbernauld bird of prey centre and poses "a genuine threat to airplanes".
The missing beast - a seven-year-old female called Gandalf - was flying at World of Wings when she was transported into the …

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Members of the public are being told to keep a look out for a large yellow bird asking for directions to a certain street. Any one seeing the offending bird matching this description should not approach as it is considered dangerous and a threat to small children.

Someone call Lewis Page...

Sod Watchkeeper, there's 30,000 of these buggers available - train them, sling a camera under 'em and get them to pull the pins out of the icon'ed hardware and we could save a frickin' FORTUNE on the MoD budget!

Just as well there's only one loose, could you imagine what damage ...

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“Surfers over the web have been warned to keep a sharp eye out for an IT The Register Vulture which is currently awol from a Cumbernauld padded cell centre and poses "a genuine threat to corrupt and/or amoral IT companies".” :)

I for one

Am I the only one

Horse crap.

Turkey vultures hang out at PAO, feasting on 'plane-kill (bunnies & smaller birds). I have never heard of a pilot flying into or out of Palo Alto hitting one. And there are often tens of these things hanging about ... with 6 foot wingspans. The chances of commercial aircraft occupying the same airspace as a single bird "somewhere over Scotland" are less than remote, regardless of wingspan.

Why?

I've been waiting for evolutionary biologists to come up with a convincing "just-so-story" about the adaptive significance or advantage of said bird cruising around at altitudes 6K ft higher than Everest.

(Not doubting anything about credible evolution, only incredible abuses of it. To the point, one of their oft heard lamer assertions is that, if an animal has some capability, it must have evolutionary meaning - or some such nonsense).

Bulls hit

This exemplifies the danger of importing un-natural beings into the existence of places other than their natural habitat. We saw the same thing with Grey Squirrels, only a few in the 1800s but look at them now. In other words, we fucked up again.